mesa

See also: Mesa, mésá, mesá, mėsa, and meša

English

Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: [māʹsə], IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/

Noun

mesa (plural mesas)

1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

   Coordinate term: butte

   Hyponyms: potrero, tuya

   A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

Derived terms

• Mesa County

Translations

flat area of land

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臺地 (zh), 台地 (zh) (táidì)

• Esperanto: altebenaĵo
• Finnish: ylätasanko, pöytävuori (fi)
• German: Tafelberg (de) m
• Hebrew: הַר שֻׁלְחָן‎ (he) m (har shulrán)
• Hungarian: fennsík (hu)
• Italian: altopiano (it) m

• Navajo: dah azką́
• Norwegian: platå n
• Russian: столова́я гора́ (ru) f (stolovája gorá)
• Spanish: mesa (es)
• Tagalog: talampas
• Turkish: masa dağı
• Vietnamese: núi mặt bàn

Further reading

• mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AMEs, ASME, MSAE, Same, eams, mase, meas, same, seam

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mesa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.sa]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

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Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization

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Gothic

Romanization

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

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Hausa

Noun

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

1. python
2. rubber hose

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Highland Popoluca

Alternative forms

• mensa (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

References

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 83

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Kituba

Etymology

From Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Latin

Etymology

From mēnsa, which underwent elision. This term is attested in the Appendix Probi, a compilation of common mistakes written in the Late Antiquity.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.sa/

Noun

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension

1. (Vulgar Latin) Alternative form of mēnsa ("table").
   • 3rd–4th century CE, Appendix Probi:

     mēnsa non mēsa

     [Use] mēnsa, not mēsa.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēsa	mēsae
Genitive	mēsae	mēsārum
Dative	mēsae	mēsīs
Accusative	mēsam	mēsās
Ablative	mēsā	mēsīs
Vocative	mēsa	mēsae

First declension.

Italo-Western declension of *mēsa
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*mẹ́sa	*mẹ́sę
genitive	*mẹ́sę	*mẹsárọ
dative	*mẹ́sę	*mẹ́sis
accusative-ablative	*mẹ́sã	*mẹ́sas

Eastern declension of *mēsa
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*mẹ́sa	*mẹ́sę
genitive	*mẹ́sę	*mẹsáru
dative	*mẹ́sę	*mẹ́sis
accusative-ablative	*mẹ́sã	*mẹ́sas

Sardinian declension of *mēsa
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*mésa	*mésę
genitive	*mésę	*mesáru
dative	*mésę	*mésis
accusative-ablative	*mésã	*mésas

Descendants

• Aromanian: measã
• Asturian: mesa
• Catalan: mesa
• Dalmatian: maisa
• French: moise
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs)
• Indonesian: meja
• Irish: mias
• Malay: meja

• Portuguese: mesa
• Romanian: masă
• Romansch: maisa
• Sardinian: mesa
• Scottish Gaelic: mias
• Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
• Spanish: mesa
  • English: mesa
• Swahili: meza
• Slovene: miza
• Turkish: masa

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Latvian

Noun

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀫𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• मेस (Devanagari script)
• মেস (Bengali script)
• මෙස (Sinhalese script)
• မေသ (Burmese script)
• เมส or เมสะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ເມສ or ເມສະ (Lao script)
• មេស (Khmer script)

Noun

mesa m

1. ram

Declension

Declension table of "mesa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	meso	mesā
Accusative (second)	mesaṃ	mese
Instrumental (third)	mesena	mesehi or mesebhi
Dative (fourth)	mesassa or mesāya or mesatthaṃ	mesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	mesasmā or mesamhā or mesā	mesehi or mesebhi
Genitive (sixth)	mesassa	mesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	mesasmiṃ or mesamhi or mese	mesesu
Vocative (calling)	mesa	mesā

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Portuguese

mesa

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”).

Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈme.zɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.za/, /ˈme.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table (item of furniture)

   José, põe a mesa, por favor.

   José, please set the table.

   • 2015, Neil Gaiman, Os filhos de Anansi, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN, page 6:

     Cumprimentou-as tocando a aba do chapéu — pois ele usava chapéu, um fedora verde imaculado, além de luvas cor de lima —, e em seguida caminhou até a mesa onde estavam as mulheres, que deram risada.

     He greeted them by touching the brim of his hat – for he wore a hat, an immaculate green fedora, and lime-colored gloves – and then walked to the table where the women were, who gave a laugh.

2. meal, food

   Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

   Portugal has good food and good wine.

3. (geography) mesa
4. board (committee)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mesa.

Derived terms

• mesinha

Descendants

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: ميز‎ (“desk, store desk, table”)
• → Javanese: méja
• → Kadiwéu: nameeja
• → Kaingang: mẽja
• → Kituba: mesa
• → Lingala: mésá
• → Luganda: mmeeza

• → Malay: meja
  • → Indonesian: meja
• → Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)
• → Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
• → Swahili: meza
• → Tamil: மேசை (mēcai)

Further reading

• “mesa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. mesa

Derived terms

(diminutive mesilla or mesita)

Related terms

• mesero

Descendants

• → O'odham: miːsa
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛsa/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa

1. table

Synonyms

• lamesa (often used interchangeably with mesa)

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Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mensa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.

Noun

mesa

1. Table.

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006), “Tlen ticuih itich in cocina”, in Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[3], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16